Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“I will lay waste your cities
And you will become a desolation.
Then you will know that I am the Lord.

King James Version

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

Holman Bible

I will turn your cities into ruins,
and you will become a desolation.
Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

International Standard Version

I'm going to turn your cities into ghost towns, and you will become a ruin. Then you will learn that I am the LORD.

A Conservative Version

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shall be desolate. And thou shall know that I am LORD.

American Standard Version

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

Amplified


“I will destroy your cities
And you will become a wasteland.
Then you shall know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.

Bible in Basic English

I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

Darby Translation

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be a desolation: and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

Julia Smith Translation

I will set thy cities a waste, and thou shalt be a desolation, and thou knewest that I am Jehovah.

King James 2000

I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your cities I will make ruins, and you will be desolation, and [then] you will know that I [am] Yahweh,

Modern King James verseion

I will raze your cities, and you shall be ruined, and you shall know that I am Jehovah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thy cities will I break down, and thou shalt lie void: that thou mayest know, how that I am the LORD.

NET Bible

I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord!

New Heart English Bible

I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

The Emphasized Bible

Thy cities, will I lay waste, And thou - a desolation, shalt become, So shalt thou know that I, am Yahweh.

Webster

I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

World English Bible

I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Youngs Literal Translation

Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I will lay
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

and thou shalt be desolate
שׁממה שׁממה 
Sh@mamah 
Usage: 57

References

Fausets

Morish

Context Readings

Prophecy Directed At Edom

3 and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee waste and solitary. 4 “I will lay waste your cities
And you will become a desolation.
Then you will know that I am the Lord.
5 Because thou hast had perpetual enmities and hast scattered the sons of Israel to the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the extremely evil time:

Cross References

Ezekiel 35:9

I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall never be restored; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Malachi 1:3-4

and I rejected Esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Exodus 9:14

For otherwise this time I will send all my plagues upon thine heart and upon thy slaves and upon thy people that thou may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

Exodus 14:4

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart that he shall follow after them; and I will be glorified in Pharaoh and in all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD. And they did so.

Ezekiel 6:6-7

In all your provinces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate that your altars may be laid waste and condemned, and your idols shall be destroyed and shall cease, and your images of the sun shall be cut down, and your works shall be abolished.

Ezekiel 35:12

And thou shalt know that I, the LORD, have heard all thy injuries which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.

Joel 3:19

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the sons of Judah because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

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